I have a Phonic Helix Board 18 Firewire MKII. It is not picking up any signal from my computer. I have tried having a DI'd bass straight into it and it works fine. My PC recognises that the devise is there, and there is a signal comming from my Computer, but nothing comming out of the desk. It is a new computer but has the same operating system as my older computer, and the desk worked fine with that. I've run out of ideas as to what might be the problem!

Here is a link to your manual, hope it helps.
http://www.phonic.com/en/helix-board-18-firewire-mkii.html

Usually it's the electrolytic caps that go in those, they basically "cook" and dry out, a power spike just pushes them over the edge. I've also had this problem with mine & 2 12 volt switchers for my HD and for the satellite had the same fix. I added a fan which helps. Another solution is to go to a second hand store, find 3 power suplies (15v,15v, 5V) and put them in place of the existing one. I am considering that myself as the firewire packed it in again last month and I had to jump over to the other 5v regulator to get it going again, even tho it was only 0.2 v short! Cheers, Sandrine

Hallo landgenoot ;)

It seems it is a power supply problem; distorted sound, no meters, solo buttons not working, headphones low level and distorted. One of the power supply voltages might be too low or even missing. The Helix series mixers use mainly 4 supply voltages: + 15 V and - 15 V for the analog part (audio), + 5 V for the DSP and logic and +48 V only for the phantom power. If for example the + or - 15 V is too low, clipping of the positive or negative parts of the waveform (dependng on which voltage is too low) will occur. If possible, first measure the voltages coming out of the power supply. You could use a metal part of a jack as ground reference.
For the FireWire board an extra voltage supplied by the switched PSU is used. It is specified as +12,2 V, but I measured 14 V. This voltage is lowered to + 5 V by a resistor on the FW board and a 7805 regulator. (Not very efficient!) But as far as I can see, the FW voltage is not the problem here. I have some service documentation of the Helix series mixers (12, 17 and 24, so if you need more you can conatct me: frankdevries [at] versatel.nl.

Groeten, Frank.

You have to go directly to their website to download the drivers.

The power supply uses three, 3 terminal regulator chips. You should find +/- 15 volts and +5 volts DC from those. There are two fuses, one for each polarity. If one of those is blown, that would cause the problem and one would need to find WHY it blew before replacing it.
You need to find a competent electronics repair person.

Here is the system requirements cut and pasted from manual:

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• Motherboard with Intel or VIA chipset 5400 RPM or faster hard disk drive (7200 RPM or faster with 8 MB cache recommended)
• 256 MB or more of RAM (512 MB recommended)

You will note that Vista is NOT listed. Best thing is to backstep your laptop to XP operating system.

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You don't specify which model Phonic mixer in question.
Is it a powered mixer ? And are you plugging your speakers into the speaker outputs ? If it's not a powered mixer and you're plugging speakers into the Line Outputs, you're not using a power amplifier between the line outputs and your speakers - this won't work.
If it is a powered mixer and you are plugging speakers into the speaker output connectors and still getting little or no sound, check your speaker cables and the speakers themselves by plugging them into known good amps.

I have a Yamaha AW1600 and I had to go into my firewall settings and add it to my exceptions to allow the program access to my computer through the firewall. This may help. Thanks!